Smyrna stitch is a form of cross stitch used in needlepoint. It was popular during the Victorian period and again, later, in the 1950s and 1960s. It comprises a cross stitch worked over two, or more, threads with a straight cross stitch worked over the top.Jill Gordon, p. 55.
Thérèse de Dilmont in the Encyclopedia of Needlework gives the following description:Thérèse de Dilmont, p. 133.
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References Gordon, Jill Take Up Needlepoint 1994 London, Merehurst de Dilmont, Thérèse Encyclopedia of Needlework 1884, accessed 16 December 2010